Cassidy

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cassidy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cassidy: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #370 in 2008, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
78times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#820
1998	#758
1999	#816
2000	#625
2001	#696
2002	#603
2003	#595
2004	#649
2005	#634
2006	#580
2007	#623
2008	#681
2009	#601
2010	#586
2011	#629
2012	#663
2013	#699
2014	#763
2015	#686
2016	#822
2017	#715
2018	#729
2019	#749
2020	#637
2021	#779
2022	#729
2023	#694
2024	#776

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #776 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2024
Highest recorded position: #370 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2005–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Cassidy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 284 births with the name.

Cassidy across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cassidy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#1230 (2020)	#1951 (2024)	29 of 29	284 (1996–2024)	21 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#1168 (1996)	#580 (2006)	#776 (2024)	29 of 29	1,422 (1996–2024)	67 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#528 (1999)	#465 (2000)	#718 (2025)	13 of 27	49 (1999–2025)	5 (2009)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#370 (2008)	#407 (2024)	6 of 20	19 (2005–2024)	4 (2008)

Cassidy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cassidy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	16	4 of 10	4
2000s	95	10 of 10	10
2010s	90	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	83	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cassidy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #370 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Cassidy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#694	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#729	50	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#779	47	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#637	59	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#749	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#729	54	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#715	57	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#822	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#686	59	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#763	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#699	57	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#663	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#629	64	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#586	67	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#601	63	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#681	53	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#623	56	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#580	59	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#634	49	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#649	46	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#595	49	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#603	46	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#696	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#625	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Cassian · #323, 27y
Cassie · #55, 36y
Cassius · #263, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elif · #369, 30y
Gracie-Mae · #368, 25y
Aliya · #367, 30y
Clay · #365, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aime · #370, 17y
Elana · #370, 29y
Ephraim · #370, 30y
Jazmine · #370, 29y

Cassidy was ranked #370 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cassidy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cassidy without appearing here.

Cassidy moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3478 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1533 and #4749.
Glenn Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3996 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1533 and #3412.
Arne Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3134 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1248 and #2857.
Madison Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3830 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #2458 and #3987.

Moved ahead of Cassidy

Tadhg Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1344 and #1551 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #3830 and #1251.
Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1765 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1761.
Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1248 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1596 and #906.
Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1596 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1716 and #1135.

Moved the opposite way to Cassidy

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Cassidy went from #1168 to #694 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Cassidy went from #1168 to #694 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Cassidy went from #1168 to #694 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassidy went from #2859 to #1461 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.

Moved the same way as Cassidy

Joanne Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cassidy went from #528 to #905 and Joanne from #194 to #747.
Kelly Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cassidy went from #528 to #905 and Kelly from #50 to #634.
Rachael Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cassidy went from #528 to #905 and Rachael from #71 to #747.
Sinead Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cassidy went from #528 to #905 and Sinead from #26 to #905.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #370 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cassidy

Cassidy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cassidy across 4 official records

Cassidy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cassidy appears in

Popularity data

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Cassidy at a glance

Cassidy across 4 official records

Cassidy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cassidy appears in

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cassidy

Cassidy and the names beside it

Cassidy moved ahead of

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